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This post will serve to list some of the more common errors and potential causes - I intend to continue updating this over time so if you think there's anything that should be added to this list (whether you know the solution or not) please leave a comment below.
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Sencha Touch resurfaced some of the best videos from the 2013 convention. I've compiled and summarised the presentations that I found most interesting.
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Sometimes we have to deal with funny data that doesn't play nicely with our model, and Sencha Touch provides ways to deal with this.
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That's enough about the viability of QR codes though, let's get into how to actually implement our own QR Code reader with PhoneGap Build
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I love the Sencha Touch framework but I ran into a lot of frustrating obstacles whilst trying to learn that took way longer to overcome than they needed to.
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In this video tutorial I show you how to create a sliding menu in Sencha Touch from scratch.
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It can take quite a bit of effort to create a solution that works across all device resolutions though. I opt for using the Splashscreen plugin to display the splash screen for the entire period.
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In this tutorial I cover how to use Sencha Cmd to generate a new Sencha Touch application and walk through some of the automatically generated code.
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One thing you will probably have seen a lot of are apps that have 'Near You' lists - these might be things like shops, people, events and so on that are sorted by how close the user is to the point of interest.
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In this video tutorial I show you how to create a sliding menu in Sencha Touch from scratch.
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In this post I'm going to specifically look at how to add some test data to a Sencha Touch mobile application, but the JSON Generator in the second part of this post could be used in any situation.
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In this post I'm going to try to explain how to trigger and listen for an event in Sencha Touch in the simplest way I can. If you take a look at a common controller setup, it will probably look something like the following
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I wanted to create this post to document the steps required to get an Ajax proxy working correctly, both sending and receiving data from the back-end.
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In this first part, I will walk you through setting up your database and setting up some PHP files on your server that are ready to receive calls from your application.
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You usually hope that the transition onto an actual mobile device will be a smooth one but there can be quite a few tricky issues and bugs that can arise.
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As a web developer, you may feel like you're getting left behind a bit if you don't update your skill set to include mobile.
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Today we will be taking a similar approach, but this time we will be setting up the basic screen flow for the application. At the end of this tutorial, you should have something that looks like this
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In this part we're going to finish implementing the API, by implementing all necessary functionality in our users.php file.
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At this point we have our screen flow in place and a completed API communicating with our PHP & MySQL backend. Now to complete the puzzle all that is left to do (besides the Facebook Login alternative that we can add later) is to hook the rest of our application into that API.
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I've been developing an application that uses the Google Maps API and needed to include the Google Places API as well. I had a bit of trouble with the integration...
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hasOne takes care of the one-to-one association. Looking good so far but there's one relationship missing... there's no many-to-many association in Sencha Touch!
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I had my fair share of mistakes and difficulties when I started using Sencha Touch two years ago, so I've created a list of tips that I think would've been helpful to know when I was starting.
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In the case of Google Maps, we obviously need an Internet connection for it to function. If we don't have a connection though, we certainly don't want our app to fail due to errors thrown by the library not being loaded.
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There are obviously a lot of guidelines that apply to all app submissions, native or HTML5. But there is some things in particular you should pay more attention to given the nature of the HTML5 approach.
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While the meaty part of this update is in the added BlackBerry support, we were also given a new feature called toasts. If you've done any development in Java for Android you would probably be familiar with the concept of a toast.
